The ideas regarding reconstruction in the South was to, in the minds of many, a fair and harsh set of laws and regulations. What was not planned was the return of political control of Southern states by neo-Confederate politicians. As time moved on, white racists gained control of many former Confederate states. This did not bode well for former slaves.
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The primary goal of the battles in Tennessee was to force the Confederate Army farther south into Georgia. The Union Army was successful in forcing the Confederates to retreat.
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Reconstruction had absolutely nothing to do with rebuilding Southern infrastructure that was destroyed primarily by the North. Reconstruction and the goal of the radical republicans was to re-build the political male-up of the South to "look like" the north.
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